Somalia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 5
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 15
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In January, Majertein militia loyal to Mohamed Said...
- News items in the archive
- 477
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Somalia is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 5 executions in the country, against 15 the year before. The archive holds 477 news items on Somalia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 22, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TWO SOLDIERS EXECUTED
two unidentified government soldiers were executed in Mogadishu, Somalia
- AUGUST 8, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
TWO SOMALI SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR LOOTING AFTER AL SHABAAB'S WITHDRAWAL FROM MOGADISHU
the military court of Somali transitional federal government sentenced soldiers Barre Ibrahim Mohamoud and Abdullahi Omar Adow to death.
JULY 25, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COLLEAGUE
the military court of Somalia's interim federal government sentenced to death a soldier
JULY 20, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER, WHO KILLED AHLU SUNNA FIGHTER, EXECUTED
one of Somali soldiers, who has intentionally slain a fighter loyal to Ahlu Sunna Waljama
- JUNE 18, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAB PUBLICLY EXECUTES 2 FOR SPYING
the court of Al-Shabaab in Daynile district in Mogadishu, Somalia, carried out the
JUNE 16, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB STONES A YOUNG MAN
Al-Shabaab court in Mahas district of Hiran region, in central Somalia, sentenced
- JUNE 4, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES GOVERNMENT SOLDIER
at a Mogadishu Military Court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein sentenced
- MAY 13, 2011Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER RIGHTS SITUATION IN AFRICA
Amnesty International addressed the African commission on human and people’s rights on the state of the situation of human rights in Africa.
MAY 4, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB EXECUTES TWO MEN ‘FOR SPYING’
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia executed Mohamed Hassan Adam, 41, and Abdulahi
- MARCH 24, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
MILITARY COURT SENTENCES TWO SOMALI SOLDIERS TO DEATH
at a military court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein “Mungab” sentenced soldiers Ali Mohamed Nur and Ahmed Mohammed Sahal to death for murdering two of their army colleagues in separate incidents.
- MARCH 21, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB DECAPITATES TWO TEENAGERS
Somalia’s al Qaeda-inspired group al Shabaab decapitated two Somali teenagers
MARCH 21, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: GALMUDUG COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY
a court in the Galmudug administration of Southern Galkayo, Somalia, carried out a death
- MARCH 6, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN
Somalia’s al Shabaab group executed Abdullahi Hajji Mohammed and Abdinasir Hussein Ali at Maslah
- JANUARY 28, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SOMALI MAN ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR FBI
Al-Shabaab militants executed a Somali man in the center of Mogadishu, charging him
- JANUARY 15, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: THREE SOLDIERS EXECUTED IN MOGADISHU
a military court in Somalia executed three soldiers of transitional federal government on Saturday
- JANUARY 12, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: A COURT IN PUNTLAND SENTENCES POLICE OFFICER TO DEATH
at military court in Somalia's semi-autonomous province of Puntland, judge Dhame Abdikarim Hassan sentenced Puntland police officer Bashir Mohammed Farah to death for murder during Putland's war against terrorist militias in the mountainous Galagala area
- JANUARY 6, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
AL SHABAAB EXECUTES ENGLISH-SPEAKING MAN IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA FOR SPYING
in Goobweyne village in Somalia's Lower Jubba region...
- JANUARY 2, 2011YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO SOMALI DRUG DEALER
the Primary Specialized Penal Court in Yemen's Hadramout province
- JANUARY 1, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
- DECEMBER 7, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
a soldier with Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government...
a soldier with Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was executed in Mogadishu after being convicted of killing another soldier.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITANTS EXECUTE 2 TEENS ACCUSED OF CRIMES
Militants from Somalia's most feared insurgent group used
- NOVEMBER 19, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES TEENAGER FOR RAPE
Somalia’s Al Shabaab group executed Yahia Mire Mohammed
- NOVEMBER 11, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS CONDEMN RECENT EXECUTION OF TEENAGE GIRLS
several independent United Nations experts condemned the October 27 public execution by firing squad of two teenage girls in Beledweyne in central Somalia for spying by the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab in front of hundreds of residents in the town, a
- NOVEMBER 3, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES ONE TO DEATH
the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia's [TFG] Court martial sentenced a
- OCTOBER 31, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND EXECUTED TWO ISLAMISTS
a district magistrate in Bossaso town in Puntland, a self-made semi-autonomous state in Somalia...
- OCTOBER 27, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA'S SHEBAB EXECUTES TWO GIRLS FOR 'SPYING'
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group publicly executed two teenage girls by firing squad in front of hundreds of local residents in the central town of Beledweyne on charges of spying, witnesses said.
OCTOBER 10, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT EXECUTES 2 PEOPLE FOR MUDRER
a court in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has executed two
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
PIRATE RINGLEADER FACES EXECUTION IN SOMALIA
pirate ringleader Salah Mohamed Gelle was sentenced to death by presiding judge Mohamed Yusuf...
- AUGUST 5, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
a court in Bosaso commercial capital of Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland...
a court in Bosaso commercial capital of Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland...
JULY 1, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: ISLAMISTS PUBLICLY EXECUTE CHRISTIAN CONVERT
Sheik Adan Yare, the governor of Somalia’s Bakol region, announced that Al-Shabaab members